About 50 dalits stage protest in temple town

Tirupati, Mar 6 (UNI) Fifty Dalits and villagers today staged a protest at a 'delimitation commission' hearing chaired by justice Kuldeep Singh here.

District Collectors and officials from Rayalaseema and the Coastal districts of Nellore and Prakasam attended the meeting.

The Dalits, who were from Nellore assembly constituency also staged a dharna in front of the auditorium and demanded that the commission must retain the Nellore assembly constituency as an SC constituency.

The commission had earlier proposed to recognise Nellore as a general constituency.

They submitted a memorandum to the commission.

Some villagers from Srikalahasti constituency also staged a protest at the venue and demanded that B Kandriga mandal should be retained in the Srikalahasti and not in the Sathyavedu constituency segment as proposed by the commission.

UNI